I try to avoid the left-wing conspiracy nutjobs, and even some of the more reasonable far left outlets like The Daily Kos, but I spend my day largely in Times, Post, PoliticoLawfare echo chamber (and Lawfare may have the most reasoned response to the latest Trump scandal), so it is NPR — believe it or not — that often grounds me in the mornings. What are they covering? How hard are they hitting it? The right may have a problem with NPR because it’s, you know, sophisticated, but it’s incredibly even handed (sometimes, frustratingly so) and they’re really good about presenting both sides, if there’s another reasonable side.

There is no reasonable other side to this latest Trump flap, and on NPR this morning, the alarm bells were ringing just as loudly as they were on CNN last night. Our President f*cked up. Bigly. I mean, he f*cked up last week when he fired James Comey, but he really fucked up by sharing classified intel with the enemy. Last night, HR McMaster and Dina Powell came out and offered their half-hearted defense of Trump — that the story is false, and that he never discussed “sources or methods” — but Trump this morning (as he did after the Comey firing) once again contradicted his own staff, throwing HR McMaster under the bus.

As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining….